raphael18 Posted March 10, 2007 Share Posted March 10, 2007 For the cool people that are interested - the History Channel has been running a 2 hour special on the real 300, and it is great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silvertrombone Posted March 10, 2007 Share Posted March 10, 2007 For the cool people that are interested - the History Channel has been running a 2 hour special on the real 300, and it is great. Ahh, The History Channel--the one thing that I miss about television and cable!! Their stuff is usually superb. In the early years (1995-1997?) they were kind of the Hitler, Stalin, Roosevelt channel, but their programming gained such an audience that they decided to expand their offerings! Pretty cool stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mchromik Posted March 10, 2007 Share Posted March 10, 2007 Kind of disappointing to see that any of you expect anything from Hollywood but fluff and buff!Side note: Even the "good" movies aren't really all that good anymore. That's because sometime during Clinton/Bush, Hollywood skipped from entertainment into the activist business. So much for entertainment and history! Please, if you look at anything long enough and with a microscope of your choice, you are bound to see what you were looking for in the first place. And how is this any different from how it ever was? Take your tin-foil hat off and just watch the movie. Sure they ramped up some details, glossed over, or changed a few things. But do you think that Herodotus didn't tell you the story he wanted to in the first place. You are always at the mercy of the storyteller. Overall I loved it. The visuals were incredible. Critics have knocked the violence, but I thought even that was so stylized as to lose any shock value. My old greek civ professor certainly would not approve, but the overall ideas of the tale were still in place, despite the lack of a history lesson. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madalumni Posted March 10, 2007 Share Posted March 10, 2007 Keep in mind this is a Frank Miller film. The man responsible for one of my favorite asthetic films, Sin City, which is also based on a Graphic Novel. He is not at all about portaying historcal accuracy, but using history as the basic premise and going from there....quite similar to what some modern Drum Corps arrangers do. They take the source material and embellish it to create their own thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
no_itsnotadash Posted March 10, 2007 Share Posted March 10, 2007 THIS IS MADNESS!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamMan Posted March 10, 2007 Share Posted March 10, 2007 I think the Spartans should do the music of 300. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UTAmello Posted March 10, 2007 Share Posted March 10, 2007 This will DEFIANTLY be on the table when UTA selects their show for the fall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raphael18 Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 I was just amused that reviewers were knocking some of the lines in the movie: "With your shield or on it" "We will blot out the sun with our arrows" "Then we will have our battle in the shade" etc. They weren't even aware that these were direct quotes from the source material. Sometimes the reviewers make me wonder why anyone cares what they have to say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fievel Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 They weren't even aware that these were direct quotes from the source material. Sometimes the reviewers make me wonder why anyone cares what they have to say. They don't need to be. Their job, as film reviewers, is to review the material presented to them in the film. Source material is irrelevant to a film review. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
84BDsop Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 For the cool people that are interested - the History Channel has been running a 2 hour special on the real 300, and it is great. Watching it right now as a matter of fact (I missed the first hour on the first broadcast teh other day) I work with the guys in the episode...great crew...fun to watch work out. Some trivia: The entire thing was shot on a sound stage with a green screen. The shield used by Leonidas has a bull on it because the actor is from Texas...although when I first saw a picture i didn't see the horns and asked why bart simpson was on his shield. He's also one if the funniest guys at SwordPlay...he can take "good morning" and turn it into a joke....the rest of the crew's not that far off...I often leave crying because I laugh so much when they're screwing around between runs of choreography Xerxes....that's really the guy's hair...every time he rags on me about something, I remind him of when we were fencing foil one day and i not only disarmed him...I landed my touch before his foil hit teh ground! You can see a lot of the same crew on "Bible Battles"....same director, in fact. The guy who played the trainer...you should SEE him when he dresses up in pirate gear....he could double Johnny Depp as apt. Jack Spafrrow very easily....frightening...sometimes when he's driving to or from a children's party in costume, he gets a lot of double takes from other motorists. Themisteclises, Xerxes, and the one Spartan who spoke the "fight in the shade" quote all teach Olympic style fencing to kids at SwordPlay The guy who used the shield with the art that looks like the Kool-Aid guy has yet to be stumped on a movie quote...you can throw the most obscure qjuite out and he'll immediately give you the movie. The shields designs were done with a magic marker....good thing those guys can stay inside the lines! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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